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Vol. 1, No. 3
Tuesday, December 13, 1999
PLAY STRUCTURE MEETING – Tuesday, December 14, 1999 at 8PM
The next Play Committee meeting will take place on Tuesday, December 14, 1999, 8 PM at the home of Lorraine and Scott Miller, 377 Waltham Street, West Newton. You can also access the meeting site from the end of Princess Road. Just go in the left driveway at the end, and go through the gate and walk around to the front of the house. All are welcome to attend. If you have an opinion on any aspect of the play structure effort, please come and let your voice be heard. If you cannot attend, please submit any thoughts or comments to our email address, WellingtonPark@aol.com or phone them to 969-6222 (answering machine) or directly to Lorraine (969-8651, atrain@tiac.net).
We will have a lot to discuss at this meeting. Lorraine Miller and Eleanor Ambrosio have been thoroughly researching play structures around Newton and neighboring towns and will be showing some of the possibilities and proposals for our play structure from three main contenders, Landscape Structures, GameTime, and Little Tykes. We will also be discussing the siting of the play structure, the possible need for an additional street light, whether to build a raised or lowered play area, other amenities such as benches, play structure elements, target age range of play structure, and a modest fundraising campaign. Nancy Davis, our fundraising chairperson, has identified local businesses and prepared drafts of fundraising letters for review, one to be sent to area businesses, and one to be dropped in local mailboxes. As explained in the last newsletter, with some modest additional funds, we may be able to get a little better play structure or to offload funding from our city budget for items as benches.
We will have a follow-up newsletter after the meeting with updates and some of the proposals. Our web site will also be updated with the latest information.
If you, or any folks that you know, are newcomers to the area and would be interested in forming a newcomer’s group to meet occasionally, please contact us and we will try to put you in contact. In addition, we would like to hear from anyone who has lived here for awhile and would like to help welcome newcomers to the neighborhood.
Our bulletin board has been improved slightly with the usage of Velcro ® strips along the side to keep the plastic cover down. So far it seems to work pretty well at keeping the notices dry. There is usually room on the bulletin board for some small notices (index card size), such as for lost and found, yard sales, etc. Please date any notices. We may integrate them into a single notices page on the bulletin board and on the web site.
Please get on our email list. You will receive the news directly by email. It is the fastest and easiest way for our currently zero budget organization to keep in touch. Just send an email to WellingtonPark@aol.com. For those AOL members, our web site can now easily be found in the AOL search engine by entering "Wellington Park" as your search term. We’re still waiting for it to show up in Yahoo and some others.
If anyone out there would like to design a logo for our organization, please let us know. It would be something we could use on the web site, the newsletter, and a letterhead.
You may have noticed that the grass was aerated this fall, actually two times. The actual intention was to do reseeding. Unfortunately, there was some miscommunication and the reseeding never took place during the early fall when we had enough rain and good conditions for the seed to sprout. We should get a reseeding done next spring (and hope that it rains a litte.)
We received some sad news recently that Bigsby, the "shaggy dog" member of Eileen and Michael Katin’s family, passed away due to cancer. Bigsby was a beloved regular at Wellington Park for many years.
Please sponsor the merchants who helped support our Parkfest last September, Star Market (Auburndale) and Pizza Market (River and Cherry Streets). Also check out the many fine programs at our sponsoring organization, the Newton Community Service Center (Waltham Street). Stop at their office and pick up one of their newsletters. We will have a link to a new web site for them in the near future.
Nature Note: If you have an interest in our feathered friends, perhaps you’d like to take part in the annual Christmas Bird Count this coming Sunday, December 19. Begun in 1900 and done all over the country by teams of birders, the local counts are done within a specified area. Changes in numbers over the years help to spot environmental trends. Experienced and non-experienced Birders are welcome. Non-experienced birders will be paired with an experienced group. Beginning around 6:30 AM teams fan out all over Newton to count as many birds of all types as they can (especially in woody and park areas such as along the Charles River). If you are interested contact Newton coordinator Michael Partridge (partridge@vpharm.com) or locally Ted Kuklinski (Tkuklinski@aol.com).
Music Lessons: with Berklee graduate and local performer David Sottilaro. Bring music into your life with lessons tailored to your individual goals and experience. Explore the concepts of harmony, improvisation and ear training. Instruments offered are guitar, bass, piano and clarinet. Will travel to your home. For more information call David Sottilaro at 617-928-9299 or smilesdavid@hotmail.com.
Hope to see you at the Park Meeting on December 14!